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General (31 matching dictionaries)

1. swell: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. swell: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
3. swell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. swell: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. swell: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. swell, swell, swell: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Swell, swell: Wordnik [home, info]
8. swell: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. swell: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. swell: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. swell: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
12. swell: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
13. swell: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
14. swell: Dictionary.com [home, info]
15. swell (n.), swell (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
16. swell: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
17. swell: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
18. S'well, Swell (band), Swell (bookbinding), Swell (disambiguation), Swell (geology), Swell (ocean), Swell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
19. swell: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
20. Swell: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
21. swell: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
22. swell: Rhymezone [home, info]
23. swell: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
24. swell: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
25. swell: Free Dictionary [home, info]
26. swell: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
27. swell: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
28. swell: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
29. swell: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

30. Swell: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary [home, info]
31. swell: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info]

Business (1 matching dictionary)

32. swell: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

33. swell: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

34. swell: online medical dictionary [home, info]
35. swell: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

36. SWELL: Acronym Finder [home, info]
37. swell: Idioms [home, info]

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

38. swell: Botanical Terms [home, info]
39. SWELL: Weather Glossary [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

40. S.Well: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

41. Swell: Sports Definitions [home, info]

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)

42. swell: Book Binding [home, info]
43. swell: DOD Dictionary of Military Terms [home, info]
44. swell: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info]
45. SWELL: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
46. Swell: National Weather Service Glossary [home, info]
47. swell: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
48. Swell: Latitude Mexico [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (swell) ▸ noun:  a crescendo followed by a decrescendo ▸ noun:  the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea ▸ noun:  a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor) ▸ noun:  a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance ▸ verb:  expand abnormally ("The bellies of the starving children are swelling") ▸ verb:  cause to become swollen ("The water swells the wood") ▸ verb:  become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger ("The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son") ▸ verb:  increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity ("The music swelled to a crescendo") ▸ verb:  as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things ("Smoke swelled from it") ▸ verb:  come up ▸ adjective:  very good ▸ name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #67353) ▸ Also see swollen ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to swell ▸ Usage examples for swell ▸ Idioms related to swell (New!) ▸ Popular adjectives describing swell ▸ Popular nouns described by swell ▸ Words that often appear near swell ▸ Rhymes of swell ▸ Invented words related to swell